After seeing John E. Marriot's Snowy Owl photos from Vancouver, I had hoped to get some more shots other then my standard sitting on a power pole photo.

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

Luckily on February 18, I found a Snowy Owl that didn't mind have it's picture taken.

This one was taken on the side of highway south of Wood Mountain, SK Canada.

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

After pulling over onto a grid road I was able to get some more photos.
Below is a picture of where I shot most of my Snowy Owl photos from... 

Started out from the driver's side door...

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

 I walked to back of my SUV, opened the back hatch and sat there for a while... 

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

I decided to cross the highway and got halfway across the road (luckily it's not a busy highway) before it took off...

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

Original on left is from Amy Davidson's Facebook page.

My tweak is on the right. - Used Photoshop to remove red, blur background, and make the colour 'pop'.

Video of interview by Dean Shareski for "Saskatchewan's Unsung Heroes of Education Technology" keynote presentation at 2011 IT Summit. - More info here. - May 22, 2011

My photos were selected for 1 of 5 postcards promoting Coronach, Saskatchewan Canada

Coronach Newspaper Article - July 14, 2011

Sheila Coles of CBC Radio mentioned my sunset photo of the St. Victor Petroglyphs on her Radio show.  - August 23, 2011

Last but not least - my Flickr photos from 2011

Okay so it really isn't 4 different hawks.  Just the same hawk in different positions.

Here's the original hawk photos from my Flickr Photostream. 

 I then masked in the background from a previous trip to Scout Lake community pasture.

Final Image

Video created with Adobe Photoshop CS5 - No Audio

Same file uploaded to all sites.

Flickr

YouTube

Posterous

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A few weeks ago (Okay, it was over a month ago), I was told about a photo contest for promoting a local community (Coronach, Saskatchewan) via Postcards. (Yes, people still send those.) 

I submitted a few photos, hoping that one would get selected...

It turns out they wanted to use 3 of the submitted photos, plus another one from my Flickr stream to create a “Wildlife in Coronach” postcard. (I changed the create commons rights to the Flickr photos.)

Wow, I was really honoured, but could not tell my followers (Posterous / Twitter / Facebook) till now.

A good friend of mine told me at lunch that she had read an article in the Coronach Triangle News about these postcards. I have yet to see the article.

You should send the Triangle News an email... tell them to post the article online so that you can see the other winners.

Update - Here's the online version of the article.

Here’s the final postcard

The background picture of 3 Mule Deer was taken South West of Coronach, SK (49.028923,-105.886638) on 9/19/2010

The coyote picture was taken near the Big Muddy, SK (49.292945, -105.106372) on 10/18/2008

 The hawk picture was taken East of Big Beaver, SK (49.086455, -105.142226) on 5/16/2010

The rabbit picture was taken East of Coronach, SK (49.103093, -105.478030) on 6/13/2010

 GPS location is rough estimate from Google Earth.

Here are some of the photos from My "Before and After" Facebook album. 

Inspired by this Glyn Dewis's tutorial and "Controlling Mid-tone contrasts" from Smashing Magazine.

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